I want to build an extra feature in my script, which only runs if the user tells it to. E.g. I have the program tree.sh which takes a gene input. E.g. ./tree.sh AIFM1. But I want to have an extra feature that visualises the gene. I want to use flags to trigger the extra features in the shell script. I found this in the link: https://jonalmeida.com/posts/2013/05/26/different-ways-to-implement-flags-in-bash/ I would like to use flags, however the first argument is to search for something in a website (which could pretty much be anything). Meaning I need the use of cases, but one of the cases needs to account for anything else that wasn't specified in the cases. (e.g. like an else statement). How do I resolve this issue, without importing any special packages?

I want to build an extra feature in my script, which only runs if the user tells it to.

E.g. I have the program tree.sh which takes a gene input. E.g.

./tree.sh AIFM1

But I want to have an extra feature that visualises the gene.

I want to use flags to trigger the extra features in the shell script. I found this in the link: https://jonalmeida.com/posts/2013/05/26/different-ways-to-implement-flags-in-bash/. I would like to use flags, however the first argument is to search for something in a website (which could pretty much be anything). Meaning I need the use of cases, but one of the cases needs to account for anything else that wasn't specified in the cases. (e.g. like an else statement). How do I resolve this issue, without importing any special packages?

I want to build an extra feature in my script, which only runs if the user tells it to. Should I just have an extra argument to my script to determine if something runs or not? E.g. I have the program tree.sh which takes a gene input. E.g. ./tree.sh AIFM1. But I want to have an extra feature that visualises the gene. Do I just have if $2 is a specific command then run the code for the extra feature? Is there a better way of implementing this?

I want to build an extra feature in my script, which only runs if the user tells it to. E.g. I have the program tree.sh which takes a gene input. E.g. ./tree.sh AIFM1. But I want to have an extra feature that visualises the gene. I want to use flags to trigger the extra features in the shell script. I found this in the link: https://jonalmeida.com/posts/2013/05/26/different-ways-to-implement-flags-in-bash/ I would like to use flags, however the first argument is to search for something in a website (which could pretty much be anything). Meaning I need the use of cases, but one of the cases needs to account for anything else that wasn't specified in the cases. (e.g. like an else statement). How do I resolve this issue, without importing any special packages?